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Originally Posted by Cammo
Not trying to sound patronising but unless you've been there it's hard to call.
When recreational drug use turns into a habit & a daily occurance it becomes a problem that must be cut off.
I'm not sure if daily drug use is the case here but when I was in my late teens, myself & my mates were getting high every day.
I clued up & got out of the scene but still kept in contact with a few of the guys (one of them was the best man at my wedding & I at his).
This guy since got hooked on meth & all the help in the world wouldn't make a difference (according to him he had no problem).
I got a phone call at work one day from this guy accusing me of trying to bed his wife  .
He had gotten so delusional that I had to just cut contact with him or it could have gotten dangerous.
Bane - If your mates decide one day to give up the drugs, they may realise what a good decision you had made earlier & should come looking to make contact with you. If they don't eventually get off the drugs, do you really want to still associate with them? |
Actually, I have been there. With several of my friends. And these were not just your every day pot smokers. That would have been fine. But then it moved to E, to K, to Coke, Heroine.
One of these people was my closest guy friend since I was about 12 years old. I don't hang out with him anymore, but I do socialize with him, and call him to see how he's doing (he got to a point where he was doing K - which is something like a horse tranquilizer - all the time, and he went into rehab for a long time). So, I still consider him one of my friends, just not the kind that I'm hanging out with all the time like I used to.
I think, depending on the level of friendship you have, and the type of people they are, you can still maintain a friendship, without putting your lifestyle in jeopardy.